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One thousand four hundred and eighty-second day. Sobyanin claims: Moscow has been attacked by drones for three days now, 250 drones have been shot down. No one saw the consequences of the attack

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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said this morning that over the past two days, “directly on approach” to the city and “at the second line towards Moscow” about 250 drones were destroyed.

Soon after this message, Sobyanin published several more new posts - each of them talked about the destruction of one or more drones. At the time of publication of this material, according to Sobyanin, since the beginning of the day, 54 drones flying towards Moscow had been shot down.

The Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, reported in the morning that 53 drones were destroyed over the Moscow region over the past night. Rosaviatsia suspended operations at the airports of the Moscow air hub for about two hours at night.

Until now, the most massive drone raid on Moscow was recorded on March 11, 2025 - then Sobyanin reported the destruction of 74 drones. As a result of that attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Moscow region, three civilians were killed and almost two dozen people were injured. At least two drones - in Moscow and in Ramenskoye - hit residential buildings, causing fires.

Unlike last year's attack, the consequences of which were actively discussed on social networks, this time there is practically no evidence of a massive raid. Neither Sobyanin (who first reported the attack on Saturday) nor the Ministry of Defense posted any photographs or videos.

As the Agency points out, the Mash and Shot channels close to the security forces , with reference to local residents, wrote tonight about explosions and the sounds of flying drones in different areas of the region - in Dubna, Odintsovo, Podolsk, Korolev. In none of these cases were the posts supported by photos or videos. There were also no mass posts from residents of the region on social networks.

The alleged attack occurred several days after Russian authorities began actively blocking the Internet in Moscow. Since the beginning of last week, city residents have been complaining about inoperative communications, especially in the city center. RBC, citing sources, wrote that the reason for this was testing the blocking of sites that are not included in the “white lists”.

The Russian authorities explain the Internet shutdowns as “security measures,” and, first of all, the need to combat drones. On March 11, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov explained the unprecedented blocking in Moscow by the use of “more technological measures” to combat attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He said the lockdowns would last "as long as additional measures are needed to ensure safety."

Kyiv did not comment on the alleged massive drone attacks on Moscow.

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Nastasya (Czech Republic) . I have been living in the Czech Republic for more than 15 years. Due to business, I know a lot of Ukrainians. I work in the main bus station building, and it is difficult to put into words the emotions I felt when I saw the crowded waiting rooms, eyes filled with fear, and complete disorientation. For the first couple of weeks, I cried just walking by. I silently hugged my friends and acquaintances.

Then a wave of hatred towards the Russian passport began. I accepted this, although no one asked my position or wondered who supports the Putin regime and the invasion of Ukraine, living half their life in another country? We left a long time ago, not from a good life. My child was born here, his father lives in Moscow. At the height of the hatred towards Russians, I was already seriously thinking about returning to Moscow, because it was unsafe in the Czech Republic - first of all, for children. The refugees did not mince words about the Russians, explaining to the children that we, as a whole, are evil as a nation. But what did my child, who was born in the Czech Republic and always grew up in a tolerant society, do to you? How can I explain to my seven-year-old son that children from Ukraine are not evil, that they are just scared? Every day my child was told by new classmates at school that he was insignificant.

Now my child’s best friend is Ukrainian. His family arrived in 2022 from Odessa. And I try not to read the news. Just waiting for this to all be over so we can quietly mourn everyone who is no longer here. We can hug those with whom we had a fight, even if we disagree. We will definitely go to Ukraine to plant trees when all this is over.

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